American Survival Guide

6 min. di lettura

With more than a half-century under my belt, I think I am qualified to say that I have seen a great deal of change, especially in regards to the wilderness/survival skills being taught to our youth, and what I see is not good. Gone are basic skills l

Grit

7 min. di lettura

Water usually lies nearby. It hangs heavy in the air before it condenses on grass. It dwells within plants, drips down rock, and pools in crevices before it’s absorbed by roots, lapped up by animals, or evaporated into the atmosphere. But in the vast

that's life

1 min. di lettura

My daughter, Charlie, 10, met up on holidays with a couple of the Bondi Beach lifeguards from her favourite TV show Bondi Rescue. Anna Glanville, Pialba, Qld Thank you, that’s life!, for my Shark hand-held vacuum. Eileen Petrov, Nambucca Heads

RECOIL OFFGRID

16 min. di lettura

In a world where a compulsion for media appearances, showboating, and followers on social media has become a metric of credibility, people often mistake pretentiousness or marketability for truth. Cody Lundin doesn’t have millions of followers on soc

Australian Hunter

5 min. di lettura

As a veteran hunter who prefers to hunt alone and do the extra yards, I have never lost my way in the bush - although I’ve come close and consider myself fortunate. However, having said that, I have always taken proper precautions to ensure a safe re

Visi

1 min. di lettura

So hand sup, who needs a holiday? Given the year we ve all had, I m pretty sure you re holding VISI in one hand and have the other in the air. Me, I’d go back to the Greek islands in a heartbeat. We’ve had some of our most memorable holidays there: K

American Survival Guide

1 min. di lettura

Possessing the best outdoor/bushcraft knife won’t magically make you adept at using it to its fullest capabilities. As with everything else in life, acquiring and maintaining skill sets require training. And, while it’s possible to learn a great deal

Climbing

2 min. di lettura

Combine the inner drive of a smash-mouth competitor with a love of mountains and a taste for risk, and you almost couldn’t design a human more suited to forging big routes on the world’s wildest alpine walls. Mugs Stump roamed the world in search of

Knives Illustrated

3 min. di lettura

A knife is always a great tool to have in any survival situation, but it is only as good as the capable hands it finds itself in. The other aspect of survival that needs to be as sharp as your knife’s edge is your will to survive. Web Time Check o

GRIT Country Skills Series

9 min. di lettura

Survival training involves far more than just learning basic survival skills necessary to endure hardship. The mechanics of constructing a shelter, finding food and water, and building a fire are crucial, but they’re only part of the whole. The art o

JOY Magazine

5 min. di lettura

If you are not familiar with the bold adventurer Bear Grylls, then you have missed more than his entertaining death-defying adventures, courageous acts of faith, and stomach-churning survival techniques (that you pray you will never need to use). Beh

that's life

1 min. di lettura

Often I will read a story that someone has shared in our wonderful mag and think to myself well I never... That was the case this week when I first read our dramatic story on page 60 detailing how Lorraine Chircop and her son Xavier saved the life of

HELLO India

2 min. di lettura

Just before PM Narendra Modi appeared on Bear Grylls’s show, Man Vs Wild, urging people to visit India and witness the country’s natural bounties, we celebrated the rise in the subcontinent’s tiger population from 1,411 in 2006 to 2,967 in 2019. In k

GRIT Country Skills Series

9 min. di lettura

Survival training involves far more than just learning basic survival skills necessary to endure hardship. The mechanics of constructing a shelter, finding food and water, and building a fire are crucial, but they’re only part of the whole. The art o

GRIT Country Skills Series

9 min. di lettura

Most people, when trying to imagine how they might react if faced with a survival situation, immediately focus their attention on the problem of obtaining food. However, filling one’s belly rates pretty low in the list of wilderness survival prioriti

Post South Africa

1 min. di lettura

THANK you Chanelle Lutchman for having the courage in exposing our incompetent eThekwini Municipality in the article, “R526 million in bonuses” (the POST, March 3-7). I hope the article, which highlights the plight of ratepayers, is brought to the at

Australasian Transport News (ATN)

1 min. di lettura

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Qube’s Ports arm following a mass breach incident last year. NSW authority Transport for NSW alleged that, on November 19, 2019, the company failed to compl

Independent on Saturday

1 min. di lettura

IT MUST be an uneasy existence living in the Durban South basin, in the shadow of two oil refineries and various other industries where explosions, fires and gas leaks regularly happen with no warning and with potentially lethal consequences for surr

Trade-A-Boat

1 min. di lettura

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has established a National Safety Committee, bringing together a network of peak bodies and industry representatives from across the maritime sector to focus on improving safety outcomes nationally. In

TV Soap

1 min. di lettura

Turning 70 is a milestone Rishi intends on celebrating with flair. Deciding on a camping excursion, he’s forced to make do with a makeshift camp in the backyard when all other venues are fully booked. Unfortunately, the initial frivolity of the day g

5280 Magazine

1 min. di lettura

When two trails diverge, Kyle Richardson doesn’t take either. He scurries up the rocks next to them. That’s because the 24-year-old is a burgeoning star of rock scrambling, a cross between trail running and vertical climbing done mostly without the a

American Survival Guide

8 min. di lettura

Concerning all things outdoors, Amber Hargrove is a force to be reckoned with! This adventurous and highly active former U. S. Army sergeant has tackled nearly everything wild. She has caught fish with her bare hands, hunted small game with crossbows

that's life

1 min. di lettura

• Don’t use tweezers to get something out of the nose in case it forces it into the throat and causes choking. • Blow the nose while pressing the unaffected nostril closed. • If this doesn’t work, go to Emergency to have the object removed. Don’t e

WHO

1 min. di lettura

After spending nearly 30 years as a lifeguard on Australia’s most famous beach, Bondi Rescue star Hoppo has more than a few stories to share. Collaborating with his mate and fellow TV star Rod “Box” Kerr on the podcast and some celebrity guests, Hopp

TREAD

3 min. di lettura

Some are drawn to foraging, the collection and harvest of wild plant foods, for nutritional purposes. Others enjoy the hunt. Some folks want to hone their wilderness survival skills or are looking to add variety to their diet. But, most importantly,

American Survival Guide

7 min. di lettura

The story goes that there were two cousins, a town mouse and a country mouse. The details change with the telling but essentially the town mouse goes to visit his rural cousin and finds the lifestyle there isn’t to his liking. He doesn’t much care fo

Psychologies

1 min. di lettura

Is your home a place of safety from the virus or do you feel trapped in it while in lockdown or working from home? Are you bored with being at home? If so, try changing the way the space looks to make it feel different. If you are working and living

5280 Magazine

1 min. di lettura

Although this can happen, with distressing consequences, on any wilderness path, ending up off-route on one of Colorado’s 13,000- or 14,000-foot mountains can lead to a particularly dire situation. On many of those peaks, there aren’t easy-to-follow

RECOIL OFFGRID

16 min. di lettura

I became interested in survival around the same time I became a parent. When you bring a baby into the world, your thought process instantly changes from “me, myself, and I” to “Holy crap, how do I keep this helpless child alive and well?!” That led

American Survival Guide

7 min. di lettura

If you find yourself in a situation where you can’t rely on outside resources to keep you and your family fed and supplied with potable water and other essentials for everyday survival, you will have to make up the difference. If you’re fortunate eno